Showing posts with label Ladbrokes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ladbrokes. Show all posts

Sunday, 6 September 2009

Ladbrokes shorten odds on Farage unseating Berscow

Ladbrokes have shortened the odds of Nigel Farage beating John Bercow in the general election from 4-1 to 10-3 (that's 3.3-1 to save you doing the maths).

A flurry of bets on Farage to win, ConservativeHome's poll showing that 64% of Tories would vote for Farage and heavyweight Tory bloggers pledging support for Farage have brought the odds of Farage winning right down.

I think I'll have a punt myself before they shorten the odds even further!

Thursday, 18 June 2009

What are the odds of that?

Ladbrokes are offering odds of 100/1 on most seats for a UKIP win at the general election.

At those odds it's worth putting a pound on a couple of seats, especially in the Stafford and Stoke area where UKIP has been doing particularly well in local elections.

But simply putting UKIP down as 100/1 (the same as the BNP, incidentally) looks a bit too much like a finger in the air job for Ladbrokes when they have UKIP at odds of 1/10 to win a seat at the general election.